CVE-2019-0186

Pluto vulnerability

CVSS

6.1

EPSS

20.6%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

The input fields of the Apache Pluto "Chat Room" demo portlet 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Mitigation: * Uninstall the ChatRoomDemo war file - or - * migrate to version 3.1.0 of the chat-room-demo war file

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Pluto

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2019-04-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 20.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-0186

Confirm whether Apache Pluto is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-0186.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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